Nothingness, the Void, Emptiness

Nothingness, the Void, Emptiness: An ultimate idea with many names in Hindu, Buddhist and Zen thought which is often confused with mere negation. It is best understood as no-thingness, meaning it is boundless with no center or circumference and beyond spatio-temporal location, the infinite bliss consciousness without division or object of it.

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WHAT IS THE LIFE-GROUND?

The Life-Ground of Value: A concept introduced by McMurtry (1998)which signifies the totality of conditions, natural and/or social, upon which any living thing or collection of living things depends for its existence.

The Life-Ground: the conditions of all life and substantive value.

Most simply expressed, all the conditions required to take your next breath. Axiologically understood, all the life support systems required for human life to reproduce or develop. The life-ground is to be distinguished from the concept of “the life-world” which refers to background beliefs.

The universal basis of all value, the maximal development of the capabilities of living things relative to their degree of organic and social complexity.

The totality of conditions presupposed by the life of individual living things; the basis of there being value and beings that can value.

While religions have featured the animating breath of life, they have attributed it to a transcendental creator so as to overlook its source in the creation itself–a kind of idolatry of man-made ideas.